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More on Why U.S. International Security Assistance Needs to be Revamped

Category: A Comprehensive Approach to National Security - a Whole of Government Approach one year ago

Here's another excellent article on security assistance reform, written by a U.S. Army infantry officer with experience in Afghanistan and Iraq.

"Sweeter Carrots and Harder Sticks: Rethinking U.S. Security Assistance" - War on the Rocks

https://warontherocks.com/2022/04/sweeter-carrots-and-harder-sticks-rethinking-u-s-security-assistance/

  • Re: More on Why U.S. International Security Assistance Needs to be Revamped

    by » one year ago

    This is important, and I’ve been advocating this for years. Several years ago when I worked in USAID we had a major policy that stated policy reform in countries receiving foreign aid was necessary to receive our aid, going beyond “incentive” and “inducement.” We established measures the recipient country was required to establish to qualify for our assistance. This followed a World Bank study that prescribed the need for policy reform to improve aid effectiveness. DOD should elevate this issue to be of prime importance. I suspect Afghanistan would have been done much differently and we could have succeeded if it had been a prime factor in our assistance policy there. 
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